The Federation Files

Fifty short radio programs exploring South Australia's contribution to the federation of the six colonies into the Commonwealth of Australia

Series Producer and Presenter Anna Gillam
Additional Technical Production Darren van Schaik
Executive Producer Tony Ryan

	April 30
	January 1st 1901: The Birth of a Nation
	The pomp, the ceremony and the significance of the inauguration of the Commonwealth..
	Dr Helen Irving (University of Technology, Sydney) Historical readings by Nivven Barlow
	Duration: 6' 00"
	May 1
	The Opening of the First Federal Parliament
	A guided tour of the Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, for the opening of the first Federal Parliament, on May 9 1901.
	Dr David Dunstan (Naitonal Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University) Historical readings by Ewart Shaw
	Duration 6' 05"
	May 2
	The First Federal Parliament: The South Australians
	For the first and only time in our history, the state's political elite left, en mass, for the Federal sphere. Who were they?
	Hon John Bannon (Co-editor of The New Federalist) Historical Readings by Suzanne Hayes
	Duration 5' 50"
	May 3
	Unusual Correspondence: The Duke, The Press and a Royal Visit
	The story of how the British Press managed to hitch a lift with the Duke of Cornwall and York for his Royal Tour of the Commonwealth of Australia.
	Susan Mildred (State Library of South Australia) Historical Readings by Jonathon Lucraft and Ewart Shaw
	Duration 5' 44"
	May 4
	Goverment House SA: A Window on History
	Tony Ryan visits Government House in Adelaide to see the windows, commissioned by the then Governor Hallam Lord Tennyson, to commemorate Australian Federation
	His Excellency, the Governor of South Australia, Sir Eric Neal
	Duration 6' 12" Listen! in RealAudio [requires RealPlayer 8]
	May 7
	Amending the Consitution
	It's printed on paper, but if you consider how hard it is to change, you'd think the Australian Constitution was handed down in stone.
	Dr John Williams (Adelaide University) Historical Readings by Jonathon Lucraft
	Duration 5' 52"
	May 8
	Remembering Grandmother: the Life of Laura Harris
	Veronica Brodie reflects on the life of her grandmother, Laura Harris, a proud Kaurna woman whose life bridged three cultures and two centuries.
	Veronica Brodie (Grand daughter of Laura Harris)
	Duration 5' 45"
	May 9
	A Voice from the Past: Lord Tennyson Speaks
	A fabulous plan to make an audio recording of the key figures of Federation hooks just one! And it is preserved in the State Library of South Australia
	Beth Robertson ( State Library of SA) Hallam Lord Tennyson (Governor of South Australia)
	Duration 5' 58"
	May 10
	The Graves of the Federation Fathers
	Tony Ryan goes on a tour of important head stones in the Adelaide Cemetry.
	Dr Robert Nicol (State Historian, South Australian History Trust)
	Duration 6' 40"
	May 11
	Federation: Where Would We Be Without It?
	A hypothetical look at what Australia would be like today if Federation had never happened.
	Dr Helen Irving (University of Technology Sydney) Hon Alexander Downer (Federal Member for Mayo) Assoc Professor Peter Howell (Flinders University) Reading by Roger Pahl (PS it ain't historical neither!)
	Duration 6' 10"